The Tutorial Time Machine

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The Tutorial Time Machine

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The eternal cycle of developer disappointment: find a promising tutorial, only to discover it was written when dinosaurs roamed the internet. Nothing quite captures the soul-crushing despair of trying to follow instructions that reference libraries abandoned by their own creators. The best part? Spending 3 hours debugging just to realize the tutorial was written for a version that's now considered archaeological evidence.

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